New Albany News

Memo from officials to fans of the Tanglefoot Trail: Curb your enthusiasm - temporarily.

Poker Run is $10 a bike and $5 per rider. Contact Jeff Elder at 662-871-2815 for more info.

A Union County Child died this morning from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident this month.

Sidney Backstrom, a co-defendant in the 2007 Scruggs judicial bribery scandal, asks the federal court to shorten his post-prison supervision.

Two children have been airlifted to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis after the van they were in collided with a dump truck on Highway 78 near New Albany.

Various police agencies gather at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County in New Albany Mississippi after two missing sisters, Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain were rescued from their alleged kidnapper Adam Mayes Thursday May 10, 2012.

NEW ALBANY, Miss. -- Union County officials say a teenager accused of attempted sexual battery and a Pontotoc man accused of killing his wife and holding his children hostage escaped the county jail but were caught in hours.

Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister, and he was armed with a pistol as officers closed in.

A 23-year-old New Albany man has been arrested after he was stopped at a roadblock less than an hour after a child was reported missing.

In NASSAU CNTY road construction. two lanes closed on THE SOUTHERN ST PKWY EB between GRAND AVE/BALDWIN RD/X20 and NASSAU RD/X21 Closed due to road construction on THE L.I.E./I-495 WB between X39/GLEN COVE RD and X37/WILLIS AVE in NASSAU CNTY In GREENVALE road construction.

Guntown, Miss . - A manhunt for a fugitive accused of kidnapping and a double-slaying ended Thursday after the suspect apparently shot himself and died.

The FBI believes Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain are alive and with their kidnapper Adam Mayes.

Textiles source and converter The Mitchell Group, which includes Big Kahuna Fabrics, Mitchell's Re-Cast, BKF Home and others, will open a new warehouse in Pontotoc, Miss., with the move scheduled for May 8. A A A A The 100,000-square-foot facility will house warehouse space with adjacent offices for the company's customer service department.

Jackie Ford will serve as the interim superintendent of the New Albany School District while it searches for a full-time leader.

Tupelo-based blues band Homemade Jamz plays in the background as Community Development Foundation chairman- elect David Copenhaver greets CDF members after his remarks during the foundation's annual membership meeting at the Tupelo Furniture Market on Thursday.